Deep Sea Embers

This world has experienced astonishing historical changes. With the "Great Annihilation" as the node, the whole world and even the basic laws have undergone a huge change, so that the deep-sea era after the Great Annihilation and the era of order before the Great Annihilation can almost be seen. Make two completely different "worlds".

But even so, there are still people who persevere in sorting out the historical materials passed down from the Great Annihilation to the present, and try to sort out the true appearance of history from the fragmented and even contradictory files of various city-states.

Unfortunately, perhaps because the severance of inheritance was too thorough, or perhaps the contradictions in the records of various city-states were too chaotic, people have not yet been able to find a more complete and credible historical record before the Great Annihilation.

No one knows what the world was like in the Age of Order.

But fortunately, the world after the ancient kingdom of Crete has a relatively clear historical inheritance. Although city-states rise and fall in the boundless sea, at least the continuation of civilization itself has never been cut off. , The memory of the ancient kingdom is either left in books, or engraved on huge stones, or passed down from generation to generation in ancient and hidden families and associations.

Scholars believe that more than half of the credit for the inheritance of civilization in the deep sea age can continue to this day under extremely unfavorable conditions should be attributed to the miracle that illuminates the world:

Vision 001, the sun.

This is the vision with the largest influence and power known to mankind at present-in fact, because of its size and its existence is so "natural", many scholars are debating whether the sun itself is a vision or not. It is a natural phenomenon, but the first batch of recorders after the destruction of the ancient kingdom of Crete, that is, the survivors of the ancient kingdom, referred to it as vision 001, and this ancient number has been passed down like this, and it has not changed until now.

Obviously, not all visions are horrible and harmful things. Vision 001 has brought safety to the world for half of the time. During the day when the sun shines, almost all the pollution from the depths of the world will be suppressed below sea level. , and it is with such a stable daytime existence that it is possible for the civilizations of various city-states to develop to this day.

According to the information left by the ancient kingdom of Crete, after the opening of the deep sea era and before the appearance of Vision 001, for a whole century, the entire world was shrouded in night—the creation of the world was cold and dim. The glow has illuminated the boundless sea for a hundred years.

That's why the people of the Old Kingdom called their country "Eternal Night", and even called the era they lived in by this.

Duncan stood at the narrow window, looking thoughtfully at the sunlit world.

The world before the Great Annihilation... What was it like?

Did the sun shine on all things in this world before that terrible hundred years of eternal night?

Presumably there are, because no matter how many gaps and contradictions there are in the ancient records of various city-states, there is one thing in common: the era of order is a bright, safe and prosperous era.

But no matter what, that prosperous and bright era has passed, and now the boundless sea is illuminated by vision 001. Everyone in the world knows this and is grateful for the day brought by vision 001.

Therefore, in such a background of the times, those cultists who worshiped the ancient "real sun" and even used it to attack the sun in today's world and call it a "false sun" will appear particularly paranoid and distorted, and are well-known by the world. Not allowed.

They are not only attacking the sun in the sky, they are attacking the reliance of human civilization struggling to survive in the deep sea age until today.

But Duncan knew that the sun worshiped by those cultists... is very likely to be the true appearance of the sun that existed before the Great Annihilation.

From a certain point of view, those cultists have grasped a part of the real history—unfortunately, that real history has become the source of their distortion in this era.

Duncan doesn't think that the ambitions of those cultists can be realized, and he doesn't think they can really create a flaming fusion star by sacrificing living people. The distortion of this world is far beyond imagination. , not just the loss of stars can be explained.

In the night sky here, there is not even a single star.

Duncan returned to the room, closed the door, waved to the cabinet next to him, and called Ai down who was using the cabinet to grind the shell.

The pigeon landed on his shoulder and tilted his head: "Who is calling the fleet?"

Duncan ignored the bird, but walked to the bed, and found the sun emblem that he had previously hidden in the corner of the bed. After thinking for a while, he went to the cabinet again, opened the door, and found the drawer where the spirits were stored. Take out two bottles of spirits from it.

There seemed to be something stuck on the wine bottle. Duncan turned the bottle curiously, and saw that it was a small note with Nina's handwriting on it: "Drink less wine."

The note appears to have been posted a long time ago.

There was one on every bottle of wine, and none of them had any effect.

Duncan smiled, closed the drawers and cabinets, returned to the bed with two bottles of wine and the sun emblem, and poked Ai again to let him see what he was carrying.

"Try to take them aboard the Lost, if you can."

The pigeon immediately flapped its wings and made a proud voice: "Darling, free shipping with SF Express!"

Duncan nodded, let himself lie down in a comfortable position, and began to prepare for the shuttle.

He had been away from the Lost Homeland for too long, and although nothing would happen to the ship if he didn't watch it, but as the captain, he couldn't lock himself in the room all the time.

Nina was going to school in the afternoon, and she had other things to do after the course ended, and it would be very late when she finished her work. Duncan had already discussed with her, asking her to stay in the school dormitory for another night today, and come back after school tomorrow afternoon.

During this period of time, Duncan happened to study the details of the spirit world shuttle, and at the same time, according to his previous conception, tested whether he could control the physical activities on both sides at the same time without completely cutting off the soul projection.

According to my perception of the Homeless when I was "here", this should be feasible.

When occupying this "fresh" body, the connection between himself and the main body of the Lost Country was obviously stronger and more stable, which gave him confidence and inspiration.

The calculations in his mind slowly settled down, Duncan exhaled lightly, a dark green flame ignited on his shoulders, and amidst the crackling sound, the pigeon Aiyi turned into the form of a dead bird in the blink of an eye, and the The brass compass also snapped open.

The boundless darkness, the glowing lines, the twinkling stars-the familiar feeling floods in, and the track back to the Lost Country is the brightest "route" in this darkness.

Duncan's consciousness quickly shuttled along this route, and in the blink of an eye, he felt that his main consciousness had awakened in the captain's bedroom of the Lost Home.

But before leaving that dark space completely, he relied on his control over the fire of the spirit body and his own soul to forcefully "brake" in an attempt to preserve the connection between himself and that "antique shop"...

Homeless, in the captain's bedroom, Duncan slowly opened his eyes.

He looked down at his hands, and looked around. What he saw were familiar furnishings, and what he heard was the familiar sound of ocean waves.

He slowly got up from the chair, but in the depths of his consciousness, the touch of another body was clearly transmitted!

A smile slowly appeared on Duncan's face, and then according to his own understanding, he began to try to perceive and control his other body in the antique shop through that little distant connection.

He tried several times.

On the second floor of Duncan's Antique Store in the city-state of Purland, the "Antique Store Manager" who was lying quietly on the bed suddenly opened his eyes!

In the next second, the body lying on the bed turned its head a little bit with a stiff expression, observing the room left and right like a zombie, and then slowly moved its hands and feet, as if forcibly controlling a rusty machine , Let your limbs start to move.

If outsiders saw this scene, they would be so frightened that they would report to the nearby sheriff on the spot, saying that someone here was possessed by an evil spirit.

Looking at it from another angle, it seems that there is nothing wrong with reporting like this?

While Duncan in the captain's room of the Lost Home was turning these weird thoughts in his mind, he used a "remote perspective" to remotely control the body and began to move slowly.

It's hard, and it's harder to direct bodily movements with just a few remote connections when the consciousness is not in the body, which is harder than asking a novice to control a twenty-eight-jointed marionette.

But after many attempts, he still managed to get the body in the city-state of Pland to sit up from the bed!

In the next second, the remote picture in his mind suddenly spun.

The body fell to the floor...

Duncan sighed: "Well, it seems that I have to practice for a long time."

(It’s time to push the book, the title of the book is "I Kidnapped the Timeline", from "Science Fiction Classification", rewriting the timeline, and avoiding the doomsday in the future! If you are interested, you can take a look~)